Inside Politics Archive: April 2012

The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism. Published April 30 2012

Three Republican senators say the Obama administration isn't answering their questions about how it's spending billions of dollars earmarked under the health care law to improve Medicare. Published April 27 2012

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, musician Bob Dylan and astronaut John Glenn were among a select group of 13 Americans named by President Obama Thursday as the latest recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Published April 26 2012

A government employees union is blasting Mitt Romney's list of "unfair" government spending after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee complained that government workers get "better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve." Published April 26 2012

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Thursday that President Obama misused taxpayer money this week when he visited three college campuses and demanded Congress extend student loan subsidies. Published April 26 2012

Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, said he won't take part in Tuesday's Judiciary Committee hearing on Arizona's immigration law and said the whole exercise — coming a day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the law — smacks of another effort to pressure the justices. Published April 24 2012

Mitt Romney said Monday that he's "studying" the proposal being drafted by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to legalize some of the children of illegal immigrants brought here through not fault of their own — signaling a potential shift in the hardline immigration stance the presumptive GOP nominee staked out in the primary contest. Published April 23 2012

Just months after calling former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the kind of "man who will say anything to become president," former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsed Mr. Romney for president on Monday, arguing that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee provides a "clear contrast to President Obama." Published April 23 2012

President Obama welcomed two dozen injured U.S. servicemen and women participating in the 34-mile Wounded Warrior bicycle race to the White House Friday, reminding the audience that they were in the "presence of heroes." Published April 20 2012

Class warfare emerged as a dominant theme in the bitter Massachusetts race for Senate this week, with GOP incumbent Sen. Scott Brown and his likely Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren each posing as an advocate for the common man while trying to link their opponent to wealth and privilege. Published April 20 2012

The White House Friday attempted to brush off concerns that President Obama's decision to travel next week to Iowa, North Carolina and Colorado — all considered swing states in the 2012 election — was motivated by political interests. Published April 20 2012

Mitt Romney and the White House traded jabs Thursday over President Obama's comments that he "wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth" — which Mr. Romney and others took as a swipe at the likely Republican presidential nominee. Published April 19 2012